Sonnett XVIII
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Soliloquy
"To be or not to be, that is the question.
Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against the sea of trouble
and by opposing, end them
To die; to sleep; no more. And by a sleep
to say we end the heart aches and the
thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir
to. Tis a consumation devoutly to be wished.
To die; to sleep; to sleep; perchance to dream?
Aye, theres the rub.
For in the sleep of death, what dreams may come
when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
~Shakespeare (Hamlet "Hamlet")

Shylock
"He hath disgraced me and hind'dred me half a million,
laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned by
nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies -- and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?
Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses,
affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the
same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the
same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer
as a Christian is? If you prick us, so we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge.
If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufference be by
Christian example? Why revenge! The villany you teach me I will
execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
~Shakespeare (Shylock "Merchant of Venice")